How to tell GREP to find specific text?

[MarkGilvey]

I'm using a piece of text throughout an article I am writing and I would like all instances of it to have a specific character style. This is the text, including the elipses:

(PHOTO-TIP)

I have already created a character style to make it yellow.

In the GREP panel of my Paragraph style, I added a new GREP (I already have another GREP for widows) and told it to select the character style I created. I just don't know how to configure the GREP. Here is what I've done so far, I hope I got something correct:

~e~uPHOTO-TIP~e

I think what I told it to do above is to:

Look for Elipses

Look for Custom Text

PHOTO-TIP

Look for Elipses

[Willi Adelberger · Accepted solution]

\(PHOTO-TIP\)

[vinny38]

Sorry but I'm not sure I understand what you mean by elipses? Did you mean round brackets/parenthesis?

~e refers to ellipses (serie of three dots: …)

~u refers to custom text variable. Is your text a variable? Or is it just "regular" text?

If so, just try:

\(PHOTO-TIP\)

By default, regex is case sensitive. So if you want to catch (Photo-Tip) or (photo-tip), just add (?i) before:

(?i)\(PHOTO-TIP\)

[Barb Binder]

Your logic is good (though you don't need the ~u) but those are parentheses and not ellipses.

~Barb

[MarkGilvey]

Yea, I meant Parens. Mornings don't agree with me. This works, thank you very much.